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from US for tsunami victims "The people there lost everything, as we know," said Dee Burr, a Crockett Lions Club member who acts as the group's local spokeswoman. A 20-person team of American optometrists and technicians will spend about a week at five clinics in Sri Lanka. The team includes optometrists Bill Iannaccone and Leila Chow, both of Walnut Creek; and technician Richard Morgan of Alamo. The used eyeglasses were collected at banks and other locations, cleaned at a Vallejo facility and stored in a trailer at Creative Fencing, a Rodeo business owned by Crockett Lions member Bill Ridell. The shipment includes several lensometers, devices that measure the strength of lenses. Cathay Pacific Airlines is transporting the glasses at a discounted rate, Burr said. Lions International will pay some trip expenses, though the volunteers are paying their own way to and from Sri Lanka, Burr said. The optometrists will test people for glaucoma and astigmatism, as well as general eye health. The technicians then will fit them with glasses. Used glasses cannot be reused in the United States."Think about that before you decide to throw those old glasses out or relegate eyeglasses from an estate you may be handling," she said. "Someone, somewhere can use them." Reach
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